Trade Roughage 01/14/07

Coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

For you and me, last night’s Golden Globes “news event” was an unpleasant reminder that the walking balloons who present entertainment news need writers just as badly as anyone in the industry. But for “Golden Globe vets,” writes Timothy M. Gray, primarily the journalists who cover the thing, it initiated some kind of psychic break. “Totally disorienting…the short evening was dreamlike, both familiar and unfamiliar…[attendees] walked around with furrowed brows and slack jaws, obviously confused by the whole thing.”
News flash: no matter how the awards are handed out, people still like to win things.
The Bucket List and First Sunday almost tied for first place at the box office this weekend, with the former earning $19.5 million to the latter’s flat $19 million. The news that movies for “urban” youth are efficient counter-programming for movies about old people was big enough to push There Will Be Blood’s latest box office triumph ($15,039 on each of its 129 screens) to its own story (and no, that’s not a complaint).